Nuclear Weapons Blog

The federal budget request was released on time this year (for the first time in many years) on Feb. 2, 2015. Not surprisingly, the biggest chunk of our money is going to defense spending – roughly $534.3 billion out of the total one trillion dollar budget request. Read more »2 comment(s)

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists breaking news: It’s 3 minutes to midnight. Do you know where your nukes are? PSR members work the media in our race against time to save the world from climate change and nuclear weapons. Read more »

The Iran Talks have already made significant progress by placing a temporary freeze on Iran’s nuclear program through the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA). The current negotiations are to ensure a permanent resolution to the problem. Read more »

Many people know that Martin Luther King Jr. advocated an end to discrimination and a path to equality. What many people don’t know is that he also advocated PSR’s message of disarmament! Dr. King dedicated a paragraph of his 1964 Nobel Prize Speech to the issue of nuclear weapons. Read more »2 comment(s)

PSR’s Executive Director Catherine Thomasson and IPPNW’s Co-President Ira Helfand "worked the aisles" and witnessed the exciting and historic outcome of the Vienna conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons. Read more »

The deadline for a diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear program was extended from Nov. 24th until July 1st, 2015. This is great news since it allows more time to let diplomacy work. However, there are hardliners in Congress who would like to add additional sanctions against Iran in the hopes of pressuring them to accept an agreement. Read more »

History will show that the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons turned a corner this month. A global drumbeat calling for nuclear weapons abolition has been building since 2010 and reached a load roar December 6 to 9 in Vienna. Read more »2 comment(s)

On Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7, more than 600 campaigners gathered in Vienna in the largest ever civil society meeting on the abolition of nuclear weapons, the Vienna Civil Society Forum, organized by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Read more »

On Friday, November 7th, the U.S. Department of State announced to PSR and other disarmament groups that they WILL send an official delegation to participate in the third Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons Conference on December 8-9, 2014. Read more »

At Rendez-Vous Ottawa 2014, a cross-Atlantic mix of campaigners from many different organizations trained each other in advocacy techniques, strengthened alliances, and developed North American strategies. Read more »

The anniversaries of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide a “teachable moment” on one of the gravest health threats of our era: the world’s arsenals of over 17,000 nuclear weapons. Read more »11 comment(s)

Nine countries, mainly the United States and Russia, possess 17,000 nuclear weapons, many of which are hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost 70 years ago. Read more »

The Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons forum brought the story of the growing Humanitarian Impact Initiative home to the inside-the-beltway crowd. Read more »